Could you estimate how much money your company has invested in your IT server room or data center? How much is your network uptime worth to you? These questions might be difficult to answer, but monitoring your valuable IT equipment certainly doesn't have to be.

Meet the TempDefender IT The TempDefender keeps tabs on all the environmental levels that affect your servers, phone closets, data centers, and other equipment locations. The 8 discrete alarms on the back panel of the TempDefender monitor your dry contacts, such as motion sensors, UPS, smoke detectors, flood sensors, AC and room entry. The 4 D-wire sensor inputs on the back panel allow you to monitor up to 16 analog sensors, giving you the analog capacity to keep on top of environmental conditions at your site.

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The TempDefender IT can monitor your server room/closet with smoke detectors, humidity sensors, floor water sensors, temperature sensors, and more.

Screenshots and Descriptions

The TempDefender IT includes an easy-to-navigate web interface that boasts several time-saving new tools. Menus load very quickly, and alarm statuses update automatically without requiring a page refresh. Look below for screens of the new setup wizards that make it easy to configure email and SNMP notification schedules.

Monitor Real-Time Sensor Readings - monitoring your analog values has never been easier. Each sensor displays its monitored values in gauge form - so you can easily see the status of your alarms in a graphical display.

Easy-to-Configure Analog Sensors - When you plug in a sensor, the TempDefender will automatically determine the sensor's type and necessary settings. You don't have to worry about reference values or other complicated settings. Just plugin the sensor, set your thresholds, and you're ready to go.

Monitor and Operate Controls: Get an at-a-glance view on the state of the control relays. You can latch and release controls from this screen.

Setup SNMP Traps: Select the event that must occur for SNMP traps. You have the option of receiving traps when alarms are triggered, when they clear, or both.

Setup Email Notifications: Whether you check emails at your desk or from your smartphone, the TempDefender keeps you in the loop. Have your SMTP server and port information handy during setup.

Creating Alarm Schedules: The built-in alarm scheduling tool allows you to account for employee time-off, after-hours monitoring, and shift changes. Enter in the specific day(s) and times you want to receive alarm notifications.

TempDefender Sensor Ordering Options

Track your environmentals with D-Wire Sensors

D-Wire sensors are a way to track environmentals in your server room (wide range temperature support: -40 to 180 degrees F), PBX closet, or data center using minimum analog capacity. With the TempDefender's D-Wire sensors, you don't have to worry about analog capacity on your RTUs, tangled masses of sensors at your RTU, or even the trouble of wiring analog connectors.

D-Wire sensors from DPS use simple RJ-11 connectors, in and out, and allow you to chain up to 16 sensors to a single TempDefender D-Wire port. Your sensor chain can run a maximum of 600 feet, so you can run sensors out as far as you need to monitor your equipment, without having to place analog-capable RTUs in multiple places. Note: Internal D-Wire sensors (for internal temperature or internal voltage monitoring, for example) impact total sensor cable length.

The maximum length of a D-Wire daisy chain varies depending on the number of sensor nodes in the chain. A single sensor can receive power and transmit data over 600 feet of wire (for example, 3 sensors could have lengths less than or equal to 200 feet). Adding sensors to the chain consumes more power and reduces the maximum allowable wire length, as described in the table below:

Temperature Sensor. (D-PK-DSNSR-12001)

Temperature sensor that connects to the DPS Sensor network. This sensor can report live-analog values for monitoring temperature within +/-2 degrees F.

An additional LED on this D-Wire Temperature Sensor gives a visual notification on the sensor. Much like the standard Temperature Sensor, this device will monitor live-analog values and can report temperature within +/- 2 degrees F of the actual value.

External 8 foot temperature probe that is compatible with the DPS sensor network. This sensor may be plugged directly into a D-Wire point of a DPS RTU or may be the terminating point of a daisy chain of D-wire sensors. Note: This sensor probe is not daisy chainable.

Maximum Allowable D-Wire Cable Length

Sensor Nodes

Max Length (ft)

1

600

2

600

3

600

4

600

5

600

6

600

7

600

8

600

9

600

10

600

11

600

12

600

13

600

14

600

15

600

16

600

Note: Distances will vary depending on D-Wire capable RTU. Consult applicable product section for product-specific D-Wire information. DPS recommends that no more than 16 sensors are used on a single chain, although up to 32 are supported on some platforms.

TempDefender Applications

The TempDefender is capable of reporting discrete and analog threshold alarms a number of ways, keeping you in the loop.

Report to your T/Mon master, so your NOC personnel always know what's going on at the TempDefender's site

Send SNMP Traps

The Temp Defender's Web interface allows technicians to connect directly to the temp defender for simple configuration and monitoring.

The Temp Defender can also send email notifications, so you can keep track of alarms from your smartphone, laptop, or any workstaiton where you can access email. You can even acknowledge the emails by clickable link within the email notification.

D-Wire sensors are all powered directly from the Temp Defender D-Wire ports and support 4 analog thresholds (major under, minor under, minor over, major over). You can daisy chain these sensors together, up to 16 to a single TempDefender, in any configuration. Run 16 sensors (at a maximum of 600 feet) in a single chain or run four sensors from each of the TempDefender's D-Wire ports.